How do you stay organised while dealing with a death?

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I'm a belt and braces person. I worked with enough nationwide databases that failed spectacularly at vital times to be extremely grateful we downloaded one vital document and printed it off. When everything hit the fan we had 48 hours to scramble and manually sort most situations. 

I've also had my own computer fail at no notice and two phones die, one only a year old, so I'm nervous about electronics, even if I can often find the necessary documented by fiddling about, or checking back-ups. 

So, existing printed documents were filed by provider, by date in wallets in an ancient lever arch file . Anything else issued later on paper was added. Each wallet also contained contact details and a basic running commentary on phone calls and emails, date, time, person, content.

I'd had POA so I knew the situation and kept my co-administrator up to speed. They kept me up to date the parts they were handling. We got there.